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    Reference 3427 (1691)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Taylor Andrew
    Title Two Years Below The Horn. A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin
    Publishing Information The Erskine Press, 2017 9781852971175
    Description 1st Edition. 351 pages, illustrated, colour and b/w photographs. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. As New. Early in 1944, nine men landed on a tiny, barren island off the west coast of the Graham Land Peninsula in Antarctica. Armed with only a small assortment of rifles and pistols and with an obselete 12 pounder mounted on the bows of their decrepit supply vessel. Officially their purpose was to prevent German U-boats and surface raiders from using Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic harbours for refuelling and resupply. Unofficially, they were tasked with reasserting British territorial rights in the face of increasingly confident incursions by neutral Argentina. This two year expedition, code-named Operation Tabarin, was the precursor to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, FIDS. It marked the beginning of Britain's permanent presence on the Antarctic continent and the commencement of a complex programme of scientific research and geographic exploration which continues to this day.
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